How you can grow your business with Google’s tools

Tools like Google Search Console and Google Webmaster can play a significant part in growing your business. The analytics you can access can give you incredible insight into your audience and your website's performance. This is especially true with mobile performance, which is playing an increasingly more important role in deciding search ranking. If you are making a concentrated effort to maximize your leads and conversions, give Google's tools a try. In today's web driven world, it could make all the difference in your business growth!

If you are trying to work on your search engine optimization, it's important to keep current with statistics about Google!

The graph speaks for itself - Google is in charge.

Search Engine Journal reported, "Google accounted for 96% of all US mobile organic search visits in the fourth quarter of 2018." Mobile search is huge, making up 61% of organic search visits, showing a growth of 12%!

There is constant conversation these days about mobile first indexing because Google has said they are moving that way. However, that doesn't mean it is happening overnight. SEO Roundtable reported, "I keep getting asked if Google is now done migrating sites to the mobile first indexing process. The answer is no, there are many sites, including this one, that has not been migrated yet. Google said many times it can take years and years for it to happen." John Mueller once again took to twitter to confirm that all the sites have not been moved over. So, what do you do? Make sure that both your mobile site and your desktop site are in tip-top shape so you are covered either way.

Google: Not All Sites Were Moved Yet To Mobile First Indexing

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Google said many times it can take years and years for it to happen.John Mueller from Google confirmed on Twitter again that not all sites have been migrated yet.He said "We haven't moved all sites yet, so that's not a [...]

Google's algorithms are good, but they can make mistakes! Their reverse image search mistook a cat with its head at an odd angle for a crow. A tweet about the mistake went viral and said, "“This picture of a crow is interesting because it's actually a cat.” Check out the image for yourself! Were you initially fooled? Have you experienced something similar with Google's reverse image search?

Research director at Citizens for Ethics, Robert Maguire, shared the image, writing: “This picture of a crow is interesting because it's actually a cat.”Reed Mideke penned: “Google reverse image search says not just a crow, but specifically an American crow.”